Local Sports

Both in life and in death, Kalix Langenau found a way to help the city’s young athletes pursue their dreams.

The Airdrie CFR Chemical Bisons will be on the lookout for a new coach this spring, after head coach Dustin Taylor stepped down from the position to pursue an expanded role with the Global Sport Academy Group.

The Airdrie Sky High Twirlers (ASHT) baton twirling club is offering try-it sessions this spring for local youth interested in giving the sport a shot.

While it wasn’t the finish he was hoping for, Airdrie curler Aaron Sluchinski is still pleased with his showing at the 2021 Home Hardware Mixed-Doubles National Curling Championships, hosted in Calgary from March 18 to 25.

Airdrie hockey player Farah Walker is enjoying some Olympic wisdom these days. Until mid-April, the 15-year-old goaltender is participating in Scotiabank’s inaugural Scotia Rising Teammates program, learning from Team Canada hockey goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens.

If the Airdrie Irish are able to take to the field this summer, it will be with a new head coach at the helm.

After a tough season of cancelled competition and lost income, the Airdrie Curling Club is hoping to strike gold this week in a daily online raffle put on by Curling Alberta.

An unprecedented – and abbreviated – season is finally underway for Airdrie’s top junior hockey players. After months of pandemic-related delays, the Western Hockey League (WHL) kicked off a shortened 2021 season on March 5.

Even as Airdrie’s youth sports clubs and teams are allowed to hold small-group training sessions again, a local swim club is still grappling with pandemic-related challenges that have made mentoring the city’s young swimmers difficult.

Fans of the Airdrie Techmation Thunder hockey team will have to wait until next fall – at the earliest – to get their junior B fix. On Feb.